BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21977, 12 June 1933, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

BY-ELECTION RESULT. CONSERVATIVES RETAIN SEAT. LONDON, June 9. The by-election for Hitchin owing to Viscount Knobworth’s death resulted: — Sir Arnold Wilson (Con.) 14,569 Mr W. Bennett (Lab.) .. 10,362 The figures at the general election were: —Viscount Knebworth (Con.), 25,841; ex-Mayor D. Freyer (Lab.), 8812. WELCOME TO MR DE VALERA. LONDON, June 9. Despite the Anglo-Irish trade deadlock, Mr J. H. Thomas welcomed Mr de Valera on his return from Italy. They warmly shook hands and conversed for five minutes. DIVORCE CASE. LOS ANGELES, June 9. Mrs Franklin Roosevelt announced that her son, Elliott, aged 22, will be divorced from his wife, aged 22, who m a member of a Philadelphia family, on the ground of incompatibility of temperament. NEW TREASON LAW. SEVERE PUNISHMENT. BERLIN, June 10. (Received June 11, at 6.30 p.m.) The new economic treason law, discouraging the flight of capital and tax evasion, imposes sentences of from one to 10 years on Germans evading the declaration of property or capital abroad or of foreign currency exceeding 1000 marks. Foreigners are also liable.